DE GUIBERT, JOSEPH. - Jesuit, writer on asceticism, b. at Montaigu (Haute Garonne) on 14 Sept. 1877; d. at Rome on 23 March 1942. Professor of dogmatic theology for several years, in 1922 he was called to Rome to the Gregorian University to occupy the chair of spiritual theology, where he knew how to combine conspicuous learning with a great sense of integrity and discretion.
In 1920 he founded at Toulouse the Revue d'ascétique et de mystique; he was likewise among the founders of the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité (Paris 1937 ff.). He contributed numerous highly esteemed articles to both. His principal works are: Etudes de théologie mystique (Toulouse 1930); Documenta ecclesiastica Christianae perfectionis studium spectantia (Rome 1931); Theologia spiritualis ascetica et mystica (Rome 1937) Legions de théologie spirituelle (Toulouse 1946). The fruit of his teaching in dogmatic theology remains De Christi Ecclesia (Rome 1928).